The fake ACORN pimp has been caught red-handed trying to "punk" CNN. The news channel apparently has the goods on this conservative stuntman, famous for the ACORN pimp videos and for monkeying around a U.S. senator's office poising as phone company workers.

The sad thing is that it appears CNN was in the midst of documenting a young conservative movement to help dispel the myth that the GOP is just a bunch of aging tea party cranks. Young conservatives know how to organize their communities, too!

Conservatism can be stodgy and boring, and so there is a need for young activists who can inject energy into it. My guess is that this thirst has caused some conservatives to be too lenient when it comes to tolerating some of the amateurish actions of O'Keefe and his ilk.

Also, on the air just now, CNN said it had proof of another related plot to get CNN to report a fake story while tipping Fox News off to the plot so that it could then undermine CNN's credibility. I doubt the good folks at Fox would participate in such a scheme, and who knows how far that went, or whether it was just a thought, but some adults in the GOP need to get a handle on this kind of stuff sooner rather than later or the kiddos are going to end up with a dirty trick that backfires. Anything that can go viral can also go toxic, after all.